Blaine W. Lingafelter

Blaine Lingafelter ALEDO, Ill. #45;- Blaine W. Lingafelter, 98, Aledo, died Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, at Cottage Hospital, Galesburg, Ill. Services are 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at St. Catherine's Catholic Church, Aledo. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery, Keithsburg, Ill., with military rites conducted by the Mercer County Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1571. Visitation is 8:30-9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the church. A memorial fund has been established at the church. The Fippinger Funeral Home, Aledo, is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Lingafelter was born on May 18, 1905, in Buffalo Prairie, Ill., the son of Wilburn and Ellen Welch Lingafelter. He married Gerarda O'Dea on Oct. 6, 1943, in Aledo. She preceded him in death in 2001. He attended the Peniel, Prouty and New Boston schools. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving as a firefighter. He farmed east of Aledo for many years until moving to Aledo in 1990. He continued to work on the farm after retiring and operated the Mercer County Recycling Center, Aledo, until its closing in 2000. He was a member of St. Catherine's Catholic Church where he distributed communion to the elderly and homebound. ...[more]

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urvivors include two daughters, Jean DiGiacomo and her husband, Ron, of Arvada, Colo., and Mary Coulter of New Boston, Ill.; three sons, John Lingafelter and his wife, Sharon, Stephen Lingafelter and his wife, Sandy, and Michael Lingafelter and his wife, Cindy, all of Aledo; 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Olive Stallings of Aledo; and two brothers, Scott and Don Lingafelter, both of Aledo. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, two sisters and two brothers.